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Field Hockey Team Aims to Play in Conference Tournament, All While They #LiveFearlessly

  The Goucher women’s field hockey team 2016 season ended with heartbreak and determination. But so far loss has only fueled their fire to come out stronger and more competitive than before. Last year, after losing to Elizabethtown in the…

Center for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching (CAST)

All students have complained about a professor or an assignment or a particularly bad incident in a classroom at least once in their lives. Maybe you’ve written these complaints in an end-of-course reflection or approached a professor directly about the…

The Psychology of Climate Change

In 2009, New York Times’ Dr. Paul Krugman compared climate scientists today to Cassandra of ancient Greek mythologies. Through a series of circumstances, Cassandra was gifted by the gods with the ability to prophesize the future, but was also cursed…

Class of 2015 Employment Data

On March 6th, 2017, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness sent an email to Faculty and Staff concerning employment and continuing education data for the class of 2015 graduates. The Q staff, finding this information relevant to the current student body,…

Smoke-Free Initiative Builds Steam, Encounters Roadblocks

  In October of 2016, President Jose Bowen and “Senior Leadership Team” announced an initiative for Goucher to become 100% smokefree in order to uphold “a bold history of innovation.” The administration made this decision in late November as a…

Movie Review: I Am Not Your Negro

Jessica Snouwaert, Staff Writer March 5th, 2017 The film I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck, opened in theaters this February and is composed of James Baldwin’s writing from nearly 40 years ago. Baldwin wrote about race in…

Goucher Style: Nashalia Ferrara

Annie Schwartz, Arts & Entertainment Editor Who: Nashalia Ferrara, Senior, Communications Major AS: Nashalia, the first time we met in Zurawick’s COM 242 class you were wearing these really cool booties that had zippers on the edges. Do you still…

Garrison Keillor Visits Goucher

Erika DiPasquale, Associate Editor March 5th, 2017 On Monday, February 20th, Kraushaar Auditorium was filled to capacity for the sold out Garrison Keillor Event. The master storyteller was the first performer of “The Power of Storytelling” themed-semester event series, which…

Who Gets to Be a Jazz Musician?

Katie Van Note, Staff Writer March 5th, 2017 What does a stereotypical American jazz musician look like? This is the question Naomi Moon Siegel asked that prompted conversation in Jeffrey Chapell’s jazz ensemble class last Tuesday, February 21st. Siegel is…

Mothpuppy!

Nashalia Ferrara, Editor-in-Chief March 5th, 2017 Morgan Murphy ‘18 is one of my favorite people, and I might be a little bit biased because she also happens to be one of my great friends. Last week, we sat down in…